Apartment Pics

Today's temp: 103 degrees (a cool streak, yes!)

We have enjoyed adjusting to our lives in Arizona, but now it's back to the ole routine. Meghann started her new job this week working for a Medical Billing Company, she works in the claims dept. We are thrilled to be getting a pay check again! And Daniel is super stoaked to have a "sugar-mama" for the next 2 years!

Daniel starts his week-long school orientation tomorrow! Yes, on a saturday. Once classes begin, we will be back to our old lives. We have definitely taken our life of leisure the past 2 weeks for granted! Sleeping in, laying by the pool, eating popcorn and homemade ice cream every night...Yeah rough life. NO MORE!

Sorry for the delay! But we finally got around to taking a few snap shots of our new place.

Our Latest dam Trip!

Welcome back to our blog. This last week Meghann and Daniel went to go see the Waite's in Vegas. They just happened to be visiting Jessie's parents in Logandale, just outside of Vegas. Unbeknownst to us we just happened to stumble over one of the modern marvels in US history. Yup, you guessed it... The Hoover Dam!
As Daniel drove, Ken (our GPS) showed us a national POI (point of interest) on the map, and because neither Meghann nor Daniel has seen the Hoover Dam before we had to stop and take some dam pictures. The one below is at the dam lookout (on the Arizona side).

*Disclaimer* simply reading and viewing this blog does not mean that you no longer need to see this historic monument. Meghann and Daniel want you all to experience the Arizona/Nevada heat for yourselves.

Just like the previous dam picture, this dam picture was taken at the dam Arizona lookout. This is where Daniel bought his dam refreshment. Suggestion, when you take your dam trip make sure that when you buy your dam refreshment; make your dam purchase a water or Gatorade. The mountain dew did not quench Daniel's thirst.

As we got back into the car and started our dam decent, this is what we saw. Soon after we saw this, memories came back of Star Scream landing on the walk-way between the turbines. We awed and marveled that not only after the destruction from Star Scream but also Megatron, the dam looked totally rebuilt and operating at 100%. Absolutely amazing!

As we began our dam walk and noticed that everything looked original, we began to question if sector 7 really held the All Spark and if Megatron really broke out of Cryo-stasis. As we began to ask those dam guides if MBE1 (aka Megatron) and the All Spark ever existed, they nonchalantly shook their heads and calmly pronounced, "No comment". This only triggered Daniel's excitement and belief that Transformers do exist and live among us.

After our dam trip, we finally made it to the Waite's house in Logandale. We got to spend time with long lost friends and we even got to ride their four wheelers. It was Meghann first voyage on the atv and even got to ride it by herself. Overall it was a fun trip and loved seeing our friends again. Oh, one last thing... if you ever get the chance to see the Hoover Dam, take it!

BUH-BYE IDAHO!!!

Sorry it's been a while since our last post, but things have been CRRAAAAZZZY! Since the beginning of July we have been slowly packing up our lives in Idaho for the big move to Arizona!
Meghann finished her internship with the Museum and is officially a college grad. She patiently awaits her diploma. Daniel worked very hard this last month to get he and Meghann safely down to their new home!

Sure enough we were able to fit our entire life back in Idaho in a 5X8 U-haul! Nate and Camille were THE BEST when they agreed to pull our U-haul down to AZ for us and spend a couple nights with us. Leaving Idaho was bitter sweet for Meg, she's been in Rexburg for the past 5 years! She was sad to leave the life she had made there, but anxious to start a new one in Phoenix. Dan couldn't be more happy to leave and never look back!!! Now he's missing the cool nights and the slight summer breeze Idaho offers. No more cool nights. Last night a 2am it was still 107 degrees!!! TOASTY!

One thing that Meghann was VERY happy about when it came to leaving Rexburg was the retirement of our sofa! Yup, this couch has seen better days and is now patiently waiting for some poor college student to come pick her up at the Rexburg Distribution Center!!!

We are slowly getting settled into our new place. Meghann unpacks while Dan reads/watches/listens to soccer and baseball until she gives him a task! He can hang a picture like nobodies business! Since we've arrived, we swam in our pool with Nate, Camille and baby Maya. Meghann's niece Maddy came over and stayed the night as well! We've made countless trips to Wal-Mart up the street and have enjoyed driving around getting familiar with the area, which we couldn't have done without our GPS tour guide Ken...Thanks Ken!

We also had an unexpected guess our first night. Meghann about blew a gasket when Dan found the little critter hanging out on her leg. Needless to say, she checks absolutely EVERYTHING when it comes to putting on clothes, opening drawers and crawling into bed.

Expect some more flaming hot post in the weeks to come!! Arizona is going to take some getting used too. Although we will be complaining of stiffling heat in following posts, we will be nice and tan real soon! We will also be posting pictures of the new place when we get everything situated.